Thanks for letting me know how things are going and what
everyone is doing. It's insane to think that it's already springtime
again. I still remember the first winter and how you would tell me how
cold it was every week. I think I said something about it, and then this
winter you never said anything about the cold haha. Wasn't it like
record breaking cold in the U.S.? Anyway yeah it pretty much stays the
same here in Puebla as far as the weather. The rainy season is coming up
though. I think it starts up pretty good late April and into may. I'll
still get a bunch of the rain season. May 7th
huh? Yeah I was just thinking bout how before my mission I really
didn't think so many changes could happen in 2 years, but there has been
a lot. Sometimes when I think of home and the United States and
everything it feels like a weird dream or something that never happened
hah I don't know it's weird. I'll be looking for Grandpa's letter, dad.
Sounds like the shooting trip was pretty sweet. Yeah we'll have to do it
again next year cause I wanna shoot an assault rifle! Tell Jami congrats
on her 4.0!! That's awesome Jami!! Good work.
Well this week was pretty nuts. It was super up and
down that's for sure. We went to the offices on Friday for materials for
the zone. Oh I forgot to tell you guys. You know how the mission is
putting more focus on getting referrals from members instead of
contacting and knocking of doors and stuff? Well this is still that
focus, but we have a new key indicator, which is contacting in the
street and stuff. We still don't hake plans to contact, but we look for
opportunities to do it throughout the day. On our way to Puebla we
decided to contact on the buses. We took three buses and in each either
my comp or I would stand in front with a picture of Jesus Christ getting
baptized or teaching His Gospel and then we would just preach about it.
After we would go around to everyone's seats to see if they were
interested in a visit from the missionaries. It was pretty cool! I
wasn't even nervous to do it. It was like the old "soap box" scene of
the old days declaring the Gospel. We honestly didn't have much success
with it, but it was a good experience. So when we got back that same
Friday we went over to German's house to see how things were going and
his mom Valentina gave us some bad news. His dad who lives in the U.S.
right now didn't give permission for his baptism. He said that he
couldn't do it. It was pretty sad. German was bummed and so were we. We
got down a little bit, but all in all we're fine. He went to church on Sunday
so that's good!! We also started our "open house" activities in one of
our wards. Basically it's a missionary activity at a member's house. We
are doing little presentations about interesting topics like family
unity, or adversity and stuff like that. We made a power-point with Mormon messages and we played games and stuff. It was good. 15 non
members went.
Well this Sunday
we went to the Nealtican North stake conference. We have 2 stakes in
the zone if you didn't remember. It was fantastic!! Honestly I loved it.
Elder Montoya came to speak (area 70) His testimony of the Atonement,
the music, his stories and everything brought the spirit really strong. I
felt touched by the spirit. It was awesome. A ton of the members from
Atexcac showed up as well for the conference. I got to talk with a lot
of them!! It was so awesome. I could actually talk with them really well
now haha they were surprised. It was especially good to see and talk
with Bishop Mendez from Atexcac. Cool stuff. Maybe I'll try and tell you
the story that he told in it next week. I love you guys!! Have a great
week.
Con amor,
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